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Thers Is This Wonderful Iconoclast At Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, Who Says That Our Mathematics Is The Result Of A Random Walk, By Which He Means What We Call Mathematics. Likewise, I Think, For The Sciences.

Why Should There Be The Method Of Science? There Is Not Just One Way To Build A House, Or Even To Grow Tomatoes. We Should Not Expect Something As Motley As The Growth Of Knowledge To Be Strapped To One Methodology.

Much Early Alchemy Seems To Have Been Adventure. You Heated And Mixed And Burnt And Pounded And To See What Would Happen. An Adventure Might Suggest An Hypothesis That Can Subsequently Be Tested, But Adventure Is Prior To Theory.

Statistics Began As The Systematic Study Of Quantitative Facts About The State.

From Any Vocabulary Of Ideas We Can Build Other Ideas By Formal Combinations Of Signs. But Not Any Set Of Ideas Will Be Instructive. One Must Have The Right Ideas.